Senior Software Data Engineer

Developer

Anywhere in US

Posted December 4

Overview

The Data Engineering team at GitHub is looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team and build out the next generation of our platform. The ideal candidate is a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable data platforms. We’re looking for someone with experience in business intelligence, analytics, data science and data products. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration management and big data technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust scalable solutions that can manage large data sets. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with little supervision. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development. If you have a passion for software and data and GitHub we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities for our Software Engineer

Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites.

Design and develop a processing platform using various configuration management technologies.

Test software development methodology in an agile environment.

Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions.

Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.

Work with application engineers to build product features that use GitHub’s data

Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way

Work across many languages including Java and Python

Share responsibility for the availability and performance of our team’s systems

Participate in the on-call rotation.

Qualifications for our Software Engineer

You have strong written and verbal communication skills

You have experience developing on Git and GitHub.

You’ve built software using several different programming languages

You’re passionate about software design and have good testing skills

You have operational experience with data pipelines and distributed systems

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over 27 million people use GitHub to build amazing things together across 79 million repositories. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com and GitHub Business, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

What We Value

Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.

Empathy: We believe in putting people first.

Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.

Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.

Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.

Why You Should Join

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where over half of our Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The other half of our Hubbers work remotely in 18 countries across the globe.

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

*Please note that benefits vary by country, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Recruiter!

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